openstack-manuals/doc/config-reference/block-storage/drivers/sheepdog-driver.xml
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<section xml:id="sheepdog-driver"
xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
version="5.0">
<title>Sheepdog driver</title>
<para>Sheepdog is an open-source distributed storage system
that provides a virtual storage pool utilizing internal disk of
commodity servers.</para>
<para>Sheepdog scales to several hundred nodes, and has powerful
virtual disk management features like snapshotting, cloning, rollback,
and thin provisioning.</para>
<para>More information can be found on <link
xlink:href="http://sheepdog.github.io/sheepdog/">Sheepdog Project</link>.</para>
<para>This driver enables the use of Sheepdog through Qemu/KVM.</para>
<section xml:id="sheepdog-supported-operations">
<title>Supported operations</title>
<para>Sheepdog driver supports these operations:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Create, delete, attach, and detach volumes.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Create, list, and delete volume snapshots.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Create a volume from a snapshot.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Copy an image to a volume.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Copy a volume to an image.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Clone a volume.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Extend a volume.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
<section xml:id="sheepdog-configuration">
<title>Configuration</title>
<para>Set the following
<literal>volume_driver</literal> in
<filename>cinder.conf</filename>:</para>
<programlisting>volume_driver=cinder.volume.drivers.sheepdog.SheepdogDriver</programlisting>
<para>The following table contains the configuration options
supported by the Sheepdog driver.</para>
<xi:include href="../../../common/tables/cinder-sheepdog.xml"/>
</section>
</section>